With data reduction a very common if not standard feature for primary storage systems, the amount of data reduction has always been a point of discussion between Information Technology professionals and vendor sales and marketing. Data reduction is an expected...
Read More »The News: NetApp launched NetApp Advance, a consumption program that includes free controller refreshes and capacity upgrades, and storage efficiency guarantees. NetApp Advance also allows customers to swap an on-premises controller refresh for cloud services or NetApp Keystone Storage as...
Read More »The News: HYCU previews R-Cloud, a low-code, cloud-delivered platform that allows third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) independent software vendors (ISVs) to create HYCU-based, native data protection capabilities. The new offering provides IT Operations with graphical visualization of unprotected assets. R-Cloud services are...
Read More »Container Management Environments for on-premises and public cloud deployment of container-based applications are an imperative for Information Technology. For most IT operations, this is seen as an answer for IT Transformation – moving to an environment with portable containers, resilient...
Read More »ESG is Suddenly Everywhere Messaging from IT vendors is frequently centered around common topics such as performance, scalability, ease of use, and economics. Recently, however, a new criterion has entered the conversation – and it appears to have the interest...
Read More »The state of data protection is changing, from that of an investment in expensive infrastructure that largely sits idle, and valuable IT staff hours to procure, configure and manage that infrastructure. Data is becoming more critical, and it is also...
Read More »We expect 2023 to be an interesting year for container storage. Based on 2022 events and the continuing growth of Kubernetes deployments, we should see a lot of clarity around container adoption. Storage vendors mostly have approached containers in several...
Read More »This is Part 5 of this blog series. Read Part 4 here. This is the fifth installment in a series about considerations for IT in changing storage vendors and storage systems. Changing storage vendors is a decision that is not...
Read More »The annual Supercomputing Conference was held last week in Dallas, with a theme of “HPC Accelerates”. While the conference was absent during the pandemic year of 2020 and saw a smaller in-person turnout in 2021, SC22 “accelerated” the conference back...
Read More »This is Part 4 of this blog series. Read Part 3 here. This is the fourth installment in a series about considerations for IT in changing storage vendors and storage systems. Changing storage vendors is a decision that is not...
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